1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor - Achieve precise color when painting landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and more - William

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1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor is the definitive color-mixing resource for oil, acrylic, and watercolor artists. This user-friendly compendium is color coded for quick-and-easy reference and includes two removable color-mixing grids—one for oil or acrylic, and one for watercolor. Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 1,500 color combinations: 1) Look in the Color Index for the subject you want to paint—for example, “Broccoli.” 1) Find the Color Recipe with the subject''s recipe number (“81”) and a photo of the actual paint mixture. 1) Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color. 1) Mix the color. It’s that easy! You’ll also learn about color theory , mixing values , complementary colors , graying color naturally , mixing portrait colors , rendering skies and clouds , and more. Also available from Walter Foster''s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series : Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic , Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor , Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits , and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes .